Taking its rightful place alongside the “HSR Classics” races at Daytona Worldwide Speedway and Sebring Worldwide Raceway, the inaugural Historic Sportscar Racing Basic 6 Hours of The Glen debuts this weekend on the Grand Prix circuit at Watkins Glen Worldwide, June 9 -11. A classic and historic tribute race to Watkins Glen’s longstanding and premier endurance race, which has run because the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen for the previous 20 years, the Basic 6 Hours at The Glen completes the HSR Classics triple crown.
The HSR Basic Daytona 24 Hour offered by IMSA debuted at DIS in 2014 and two years later the HSR Basic 12 Hours of Sebring, offered by the Alan Jay Automotive Community, adopted on the legendary Sebring airport street course. The addition of the HSR Basic 6 Hours of The Glen now creates the right trifecta of HSR tribute races saluting America’s three oldest main sports activities automobile endurance races.
The featured on-track element of the HSR Basic 6 Hours of The Glen is the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen tribute race that takes place Saturday and Sunday. It begins with a symbolic six hours of continuous competitors Saturday earlier than all three competing Run Teams contest a last spherical of races Sunday afternoon to convey the Basic 6 to an in depth.
The HSR Basic 6 Hours options three totally different Run Teams which might be every house to particular generations of sports activities vehicles, some from greater than 50 years in the past and others retired from up to date competitors as just lately as 5 years in the past. Every Run Group takes to the three.377-miles Watkins Glen three totally different instances for a trio of practically one-hour lengthy races for every division over the course of Saturday and Sunday. The rivals overlaying probably the most mixed distance in every Run Group can be topped inaugural 2023 HSR Basic 6 Hours of The Glen champions and be awarded customized watches carrying the race’s brand from B.R.M. Chronographes.
HSR Basic 6 Hours of The Glen Run Teams:
Run Group A – Early Period: Pre-1978 – The oldest and maybe most memory-stirring division, Group A options legendary and early FIA-era Prototypes and GT machines that raced in IMSA, Trans-Am and the Six Hours of The Glen when it was a part of FIA worldwide world championship competitors within the late Sixties and ’70s. The group has attracted race vehicles such because the Lola T160, T165 and T70 Coupe and a number of other Chevron B21/23, B26, B31 and B36 fashions. Entered production-based GT vehicles of the period embrace 1970’s BMW CSLs, a 1973 Ford Escort RS1600, a Porsche 914/6 GT and the at all times formidable contingent of late Sixties and ’70s period Porsche 911 S, RSR and IROC entries. British small-bore followers have a pair of the late Sixties TVR Vixens to observe whereas one other entry to look at is the at all times fast GMT Racing 1962 No. 1 Lola 23b of Travis Engen. The Lotus is the oldest automobile competing within the inaugural HSR Basic 6 Hours of The Glen.
Run Group B – Historic Period: 1978 – 1993: The prime of the unique GTP and Group C years is on the coronary heart of this division together with the wide-body GTX, GTS, GTO and GTU machines that had been a trademark of the unique IMSA Camel GT and later sequence. Former HSR Basic Daytona 24 Hour winner Malcolm Ross brings his ex-Tom Walkinshaw Racing (TWR) 1991 No. 2 Jaguar XJR-16 to The Glen as an early Group B favourite for the victory. Two-time HSR Basic Daytona winner Steve Cohen additionally seeks one other “HRS Classics” win within the inaugural HSR Glen 6 Hours in his flame-throwing Sundry Racing 1995 No. 5 Oldsmobile Aurora GTS. A mass of Porsche 911 and 993 entries add to the combination as do some smaller however fast manufacturing based mostly machines that raced in Velocity Phrase Problem, IMSA Firestone Firehawk and even the Canadian Rothmans Porsche Turbo Cup sequence. A number of rivals in these lessons may ship some surprises and sneak onto the Group B podium within the Basic 6 Hours.
Run Group C – Trendy Period: 1994 – 2018: Historic however acquainted, Group C is house to a various and aggressive mixture of every part from mighty LMP1 and GTLM vehicles battling with mid-generation Daytona Prototypes, Oreca FLM-09 “PC” machines and early-production LMP3 prototypes. The battle royale for general Group C honors will seemingly come all the way down to the same 2005 and 2004 Audi R8 LMP entries of Engen and Larry Connor and the 2009 Zytek GZ09SC/LMP1 of Keith Frieser. The Matador Motorsports 2016 No. 3 Corvette C7.R of Pierce Marshall leads probably the most various lineup of GT vehicles within the Basic 6, with Run Group C additionally that includes Ferrari F458s, a Lamborghini Tremendous Trofeo and class-leading line up of Porsche 991 GT3 Cup and 981 Cayman GT4 Clubsports.
The Basic 6 Hours race weekend additionally options the HSR Watkins Glen Historics which might be points-paying races for HSR’s numerous season-long championships. Along with a doubleheader lineup of HSR WeatherTech Sprints for all Run Teams, the Glen Historics characteristic race lineup consists of the HSR Stoner Automotive Care World GT and Sasco Sports activities Worldwide/American Problem sprints on Friday afternoon and twin B.R.M. Endurance Problem one-hour races Sunday morning.
Detailed occasion info for the HSR Basic 6 Hours of The Glen, together with weekend schedules and entry lists, is accessible at http://www.HSRRace.com.
Spectator tickets for the HSR Basic 6 Hours of The Glen can be found completely on the Watkins Glen Worldwide web site at https://www.theglen.com/.
